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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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~~Is Threads federating? I thought it was just standalone. ~~
~~Searching around for “Threads Federation” or “Threads Fediverse” yielded nothing~~
Got it - ActivityPub was the term to use
source - techcrunch
At least in the original leaks it clearly said so and apparently they did talk to some large Mastodon instance admins a few weeks ago about enabling federation with them but since it was under NDA no further details are known.
I guess so that they can get their dirty hands on teh fediverse data "legally" and, I assume, have their own shiny app that pumps ads down your throat. There's a post somewhere regarding the permissions that threads asks for - pretty much everything you do on your phone will get sucked up by meta.
From what I've read, their apps are not coming to the EU (yet?), which to me sounds like they don't want to comply with the privacy laws. It could be totally different, but this is my gut reaction given Meta's reputation.